In a significant move to bolster the United States’ missile defense capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has ...

The US Navy’s HELIOS laser weapon, a cutting-edge directed energy system, has demonstrated its potential in recent tests, ...

The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean.

The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear-armed missiles is to negotiate their elimination—not pretend some magic ...

Late last year, the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG-88) conducted a test of its ...

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...

TASS/. The newest Iron Dome missile defense system developed by the US envisages the deployment of interceptors in space equipped with lasers to destroy nuclear weapons, the Financial Times ...

For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White ...

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

The USS Preble is the only U.S. destroyer armed with the HELIOS, which can fire laser beams to destroy fast attack craft and drones.